Matchboxes
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Matchboxes is a combination of a memory/concentration game and a word guessing game. The game is played by two players (the second can be AI or another human) on a grid containing 36 boxes. Upon flipping a box an animated figure is revealed and the aim is to get pairs of the same kind and colour. The player will then get to keep uncovering boxes until a match isn't made. Beneath the grid is a word which is partially revealed as boxes are opened and after every match the player gets a chance to enter the word. The player that first enters the right word wins the game. There are some different variations of the game: one that lacks the word guessing part, one with reversed words and one where the word is scrambled.

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Description from the packaging:

An animated game for the family.
Remember the satisfaction of spending an evening at home playing parlor games with family and friends? Matchboxes brings you that kind of fun once again in a classic contest of intuition and recall brought to exciting new life.

Lurking behind a grid of thirty-six numbered boxes is an animated menagerie of colorful characters and objects, each with a catchy tune all its own. You'll have to play your hunches and stretch your memory powers to the limit as you uncover the boxes two at a time in an effort to match up identical parts and solve a hidden word puzzle.

Variations include one or two player games, many colorful Matchboxes screens, and word puzzles that are frontwards, backwards, or scrambled. Choose your own tricky puzzles to stump your opponent, or let the computer do your dirty work for you. A delight for the eyes, ears, and intellect, Matchboxes will provide you with hours of mind wrenching fun.

Joystick controlled.
For one or two players.

By Al Cheser.
